DevOps Job Trends in Swansea

DevOps
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 47 4 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 13.54% 9.76% 15.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.42% 12.90% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 47 4 22
10th Percentile £36,150 £40,359 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,298 £40,202
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,124 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% +0.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,762 £52,500
90th Percentile £73,750 - £54,875
West Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,124 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.70% +0.25% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 242 31 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 69.74% 75.61% 79.65%
Number of salaries quoted 164 25 120
10th Percentile £32,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +21.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% +9.20%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Swansea

DevOps
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Swansea over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Swansea

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (17.02%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (85.11%) Azure
2 26 (55.32%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (46.81%) AWS
4 15 (31.91%) GCP
5 8 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (17.02%) GitHub
5 8 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (14.89%) Serverless
7 5 (10.64%) Azure AI
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.13%) Datadog
9 1 (2.13%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) MongoDB
2 7 (14.89%) MySQL
2 7 (14.89%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.38%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.26%) Redis
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) JIRA
2 11 (23.40%) Git
3 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.02%) Selenium
4 6 (12.77%) GitLab
4 6 (12.77%) JUnit
5 5 (10.64%) Cypress.io
5 5 (10.64%) Postman
6 3 (6.38%) Newman
6 3 (6.38%) REST Assured
6 3 (6.38%) RSpec
6 3 (6.38%) TestRail
6 3 (6.38%) Zephyr
7 2 (4.26%) Bugzilla
7 2 (4.26%) minitest
8 1 (2.13%) Mocha
General
1 22 (46.81%) Public Sector
2 14 (29.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Marketing
5 4 (8.51%) Banking
5 4 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Finance
6 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Junior
2 9 (19.15%) Junior DevOps
2 9 (19.15%) Junior DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Software Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) Lead
5 5 (10.64%) .NET Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Principal Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Principal Software Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.17%) RESTful
2 16 (34.04%) React
3 14 (29.79%) Spring
3 14 (29.79%) Spring Boot
4 11 (23.40%) Node.js
5 9 (19.15%) Ruby on Rails
6 8 (17.02%) Kafka
6 8 (17.02%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (14.89%) Hibernate
7 7 (14.89%) JPA
7 7 (14.89%) Playwright
8 6 (12.77%) .NET
8 6 (12.77%) CSS
8 6 (12.77%) Jest
9 5 (10.64%) .NET Core
9 5 (10.64%) ASP.NET
9 5 (10.64%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (10.64%) Blazor
9 5 (10.64%) ML.NET
10 4 (8.51%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (27.66%) Product Ownership
3 10 (21.28%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (14.89%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (12.77%) Mainframe
6 5 (10.64%) Onboarding
7 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (8.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) AIX
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (78.72%) Agile
2 28 (59.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
4 22 (46.81%) Scrum
5 19 (40.43%) Microservices
6 17 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (29.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (27.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (27.66%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (25.53%) Observability
10 11 (23.40%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
10 11 (23.40%) Project Delivery
10 11 (23.40%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (21.28%) Kanban
11 10 (21.28%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (19.15%) Decision-Making
12 9 (19.15%) Event-Driven
12 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Java
2 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
3 10 (21.28%) SQL
4 9 (19.15%) Ruby
5 8 (17.02%) C#
6 5 (10.64%) Python
6 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
7 4 (8.51%) Bicep
8 3 (6.38%) Go
9 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) ISTQB
2 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.26%) PMP
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.13%) CBAP
5 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) QA
2 8 (17.02%) Accessibility
2 8 (17.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (40.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (34.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (29.79%) Terraform
3 5 (10.64%) Grafana
3 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Google
2 6 (12.77%) OneLogin
3 4 (8.51%) Splunk
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle